From Nina Allan, author of the critically acclaimed The Race,
comes a story of family, identity and memory as Titan Books announce her new SF novel The Rift...Selena and Julie are sisters. As children they were closest
companions, but as they grow towards maturity, a rift develops
between them.There are greater rifts, however. Julie goes missing at the age of
seventeen. It will be twenty years before Selena sees her again.
When Julie reappears, she tells Selena an incredible story about
how she has spent time on another planet. Selena has an
impossible choice to make: does she dismiss her sister as a
damaged person, the victim of delusions, or believe her, and risk
her own sanity in the process? Is Julie really who she says she is,
and if she isn’t, what does she have to gain by claiming her
sister’s identity?

THE RIFT is a novel about the illusion we
call reality, the memories shared between
people and the places where those
memories diverge, a story about what might
happen when the assumptions we make
about the world and our place in it are called
into question.

Allan plays with form to create an intimate
portrayal of the two sisters and is a
powerful tale of loss, redemption and obsession; the universal themes of this beautiful
literary SF novel will linger with the reader long after the last page.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nina Allan’s debut novel THE RACE was shortlisted for the John W. Campbell
Memorial Award, the BSFA Award and the Kitchies Red Tentacle. She has won
the BSFA Award for Short Fiction, the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, and the Aeon
Award. She has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award four times and
was a finalist for the 2014 Shirley Jackson Award. She blogs at ninaallan.co.uk.